 Hello everyone. Thank you for connecting. Thank you for being a part of this course on the Keys to Supernatural Ministry. In this session we will talk about personal preparation and what is required for us to know in the supernatural at the manifesto supernatural. So I am just going to cover the different keys of personal preparation in one by one. Let's first begin with the intimacy with God. We already have these points in our notes but I am going to go over them elaborating and explaining them further. So the first key for personal preparation to manifest the supernatural is intimacy with God. And we know that the word of God talks so much about the word abiding in us and us abiding in Christ. When we look at John chapter 15, Jesus said that it's important for us to be planted in Him, connected to Him. That's the place from where we receive His life. That's the place from where we receive His counsel, His guidance, His power and everything He is our source. So first to manifest the supernatural, we must ensure that we are connected to Christ Jesus our source. Now how do we do this? There are many things that we can do to pursue intimacy with God. When we look at the life of Jesus, He spent many hours in prayer. He was intimate with the Father. So for us today, we can do similar things like taking time in prayer, worshipping the Lord, having personal worship, taking time to meditate the word of God, confess the word of God, engage in fasting. And all of these will help us draw closer to God. To be intimate with our God and that is the place from where the power of God will flow. And we will see greater works done through our lives. Even if we go back to the example of the church. We see them spending a lot of time in prayer. We see them responding to various situations. In view that as they went before the Lord and spent that time, they could be part of the church. And we see the manifestation of this time that they invested in prayer. They had great grace upon them, great favor, many signs. One is a miracle is to be placed through the great church of the good lives. And that's a reminder for us today to spend time with God, be intimate with God and receive the power. We talk about the flow of the Spirit touching people's lives. When Jesus mentioned this in John chapter 7 verse 37 and 38, He said, Out of your belly shall flow rivers of living water. So that's an outflow that we are expecting through us. But the outflow is powerful when there is a receiving of the inflow. That is what people remember. So before we receive from God, we are positioning ourselves to release our God. And that inflow will happen from our place of personal intimacy with God. We believe that without that it will not be. We can note the supernatural a little bit here and there, but that can't still flow. We only come when we are receiving from God. Just a word of emphasis on doing this, now that we love seeking God and being intimate with God, a place of loving Him, genuinely desiring Him. And not so much from a place of the law where we are supposed to pray for these men and ours. We are supposed to lead God's work, we are supposed to worship. And God is not looking for it. He doesn't want us to seek Him out of obligation. Do enjoy for Him and a place of really enjoying that pleasure in being with Him. That's intimacy, that's true intimacy. And this place of intimacy becomes the place of receiving as the supernatural. So intimacy with God is important for us to prepare ourselves for the supernatural. How can we do the next important aspect? It would be establishing oneself in the right identity. What is the right identity? It is understanding who we are in Christ. We need to know who we are in Christ. The Bible has so much to talk about that. The time that we are 15, we are less, we are children of God. But when we walk in the supernatural, we need to function from that place. Otherwise, we will carry a wrong sense of entitlement. It can be a wrong sense of superiority or even a sense of low-selling work. All these things happen when we are not clear about who we are in Christ. When we are a supernatural man, we feel like we are entitled to people's praises. We feel like we are better than others. That's why God is working through us. We know that God works in spite of us. There are many times that God still goes ahead and does the miracle. Because of his love and compassion for people, it is not necessarily because of our great wills or our great pursuit of God. We need to know that. We honour that people give us. Let's remember the testimony of the leaders of the early church. The times when miracles happened, we find Peter reminding the people that they must look to God because it was God who did the miracle. We fight him saying the same thing when a lot of the miracles happened. That's a lesson for us. We say, yes miracles happened, the supernatural manatees, but it's not because of us. It's because of who our God is. We must always give God the glory. That could happen when we know who we are in Christ. When we talk about no-self, when a miracle did not happen or the supernatural did not happen, if we are not strong in our identity in Christ, that could push us to a place of ordination and kind of make it about ourselves. Now again, if we are strong in our identity, then we can overcome all these challenges. So being established in our identity with Christ is very helpful and necessary for us to function properly in the supernatural. Now let's move on to another very important part that we need to consider and that is compassion. So as we're talking about the manifestation of the supernatural somewhere, we can pull up the wrong motivation. And so we need to check our hearts and ask ourselves a question. Why do we want the supernatural manatees? Why are we asking God for healing? So why are we asking Him for healing? We can ask all of those questions. And if the answer is that we care about people and we want to see them here, then that would be the right answer. Because even in the ministry of Jesus, He moved with compassion. He was concerned for people and that is why He performed many miracles. One scripture that we can state is 1414 and talks about the compassion of Jesus. He was moved with compassion and there is miracles. So we must function from a place of compassion. And it really works from that place of love as the nation's biostics also tells us. So love is where the desire for more of the supernatural must begin. Not so much for, you know, our faith, or any of those reasons. But we are motivated by our passion for people. As we move ahead in our God will do what the good things. So the good aspect for us to consider is holiness. When we walk in holiness, God will be able to do much more and release His power. We discussed earlier in one of our sessions how Paul spoke to Timothy. He said, one will get rid of sin and become a vessel of honor. They will be ready for the master's use. So even today what God wants us is He wants us to present ourselves in the holiness to Him. And holiness is to get rid of all sinful habits. Anything that may pollute us or take us in our hearts, in our minds. Anything at all that is a mess or anything that is away from the standards of God. That is sin. We don't want that in our lives. We want to be that vessel of honor that God can work at all times. Now as believers we may say that yes, I am already walking in holiness for God and there is no evil in my life or my lifestyle. But we just want to bring our attention to another aspect here where yes there may be nothing more to believe or want in our lives. But we may have, you know, seemingly unnecessary things in our lives which is also something that we need to get rid of. If we look at the example of Apostle Paul. First going to chapter 6 and verse 12. He said, all things are unlawful for me but all things are not helpful. All things are lawful for me but I will not be not under the power of any. So what he is saying is he is presenting himself to God in such a way that even if there are so-called good things and so-called not simple things and yet if they are unnecessary, they are not helpful. He avoids even those things so that he can present himself to God in a holy manner. And so it is something we can consider as believers and want to pursue the Lord. Maybe there are things like spending time on our phone maybe we are going to be at anything simple but it could be a waste of time it could be distracting us a lot and then it becomes unnecessary. We have to put ourselves or speak to ourselves and say, okay, this is not helpful and I need to get rid of this particular habit. And similarly there are very many things that we can look at and this can be very personal to each one of us where we can be led by God, hear from Him and see what are those matters in our lives which are not helpful and get rid of them. So there should be nothing that rules us. As we read from that passage of Bupaskar verse 612 where Paul said, I will not be brought under the power of him. So nothing should be able to rule us. No appetite should rule us. Only Christ should rule us. So keeping our lives in that place is something that we must look into. We also see how Jesus when he talked about the true wine and the branches he also stated that the Father he proves he gets rid of unnecessary parts of the wine so that the wine can continue to grow, thrive and bear fruit. So this is applicable to our lives. Proving our unnecessary things, unimportant things, simple things to present ourselves in holiness to God is what God really wants from us and we will be able to manifest a supernatural greater measure as we pursue consecration, as we pursue healing to God and aligning ourselves to learn many parts of God. Now the next aspect for us to consider to prepare ourselves is to learn to walk in dominant anonymity. We see the life of Jesus, the way he debuted, sickness is the way he rebuked or he cast out demons, the way he took authority even when it came to natural factors that were opposing the works of God at the time, like each other did, where Jesus rebukes the winds and the waves. These are all pictures of how Jesus took authority. Today we know because Jesus died on the cross, we carry that authority and dominion and Jesus is what the victory over stated on the cross. So what we can do is to simply enforce that victory in all aspects of our lives and that will help us to manifest the supernatural. So we can take authority over sin, we can take dominion over any demonic works, we can manifest the power of God wherever it is necessary. So every word of Satan we can manifest the authority of God. Now another aspect to consider when we talk about dominion and authority is to have the confidence that Jesus has already won the victory on the cross and so nothing that Satan does will harm us. We have our scriptures through that data when Jesus sent his disciples in Luke chapter 10 verse 19 and asked them to go into supernatural works. He reminds them that they will trample herself as its copious. Nothing by any means could be able to harm them. So that is comforting and encouraging for us to know that today as we do God's work, as we go against the works of Satan and his demons, we don't have to be afraid of any harm coming to us in the call. There is with us, God with him, but he will lead us and guide us. So we need not be afraid of any backlash. 1 John 5, 18 also reminds us, it tells us that the enemy cannot touch us when we position ourselves in holiness. Not so knowing, understanding, and functioning in our authority is another crucial step for us to be prepared to manifest the supernatural. Now further, let's talk about growing in the anointing because that again is something that one must do to see more of the supernatural. Now we want to gain an understanding of the anointing. He said that there is an anointing within as 1 John chapter 2 verse 20 and 27 and he also stated that there is an anointing upon the way Jesus testified of the spirit of the Lord may come upon him in chapter 4. So based on this, what they are saying is we can grow in the anointing whether it is the anointing within to help us become more like Jesus or the anointing upon us, empowering us to constantly do the works of God and to see God's power being made madness. And growing in the anointing we must remember what we said earlier about intimacy, that's the source from where the inflow would happen and there would be a greater release of the anointing through our lives. So how do we ensure an increase in our anointing? So a couple of things that again we've already touched on these matters we can discover the grace of God upon our lives and the gifts aligned to that grace the calling of God when we have that understanding the ability to function in that soul which is very powerful and the anointing increases over our lives which is chapter 3 verse 7 that's the instruction to us to recognize the grace of God recognize the gift of God and accordingly invest our time and invest our energy and as we do that we're yielding to that gift and grace of God and we will see that there is a greater anointing in the minister even across the board he was all about the calling that God had in him and he functioned in that grace so that the working of God's power becomes effective in and through his life so this is the way in which we can grow in the anointing the empowerment of God and the measure of his anointing can keep increasing as we submit ourselves as we walk in wholeness as we walk in consecration we can also increase in our anointing through impartation impartation is biblical we see in John chapter 3 verse 27 that no one can receive anything else it is given to him from heaven and soul anointing comes from God it is not something that we can take among ourselves as human beings so anointing comes from God it can be imparted to us from God how can we receive impartation we can receive impartation through association many honour people who are carrying the anointing of God and they are associated with them in any way we are working with them that we can expect impartation from that from that place of association now impartation is also aligned to the gifts and columns of God when we discuss that the impartation happens at a certain level and one needs to still nurture the gift for the anointing to so we receive a measure of impartation we don't look at it as everything which a person has ministry has imparted completely to another person so these are some key thoughts regarding impartation in this manner we can actually grow in the anointing of God so we will just keep moving on we will cover a couple of other aspects that will be helpful for us to prepare ourselves so now we come to inner wholeness and we are saying that very similar to identity when we are at a place where we receive the healing of God for our inner man for our soulish person we can minister from a place of wholeness and that is very important if we are not fully healed in our inner man and we still carry some hurts we carry painful experiences and we have not let God completely heal us and that can show up in the way we minister in our expressions in ministry which can be dangerous it can be full of people at times which is why we must ensure that we come before the Lord and we open ourselves up to God and we say God help me heal me so that I can function from a place of wholeness so what if we don't receive that wholeness from God it will show up it will show up in the statements that we made it will show up in the way we relate to people it will show up in improper motivation in our ministry and that is the danger so what we need to desire is to be whole before God and be that vessel where our emotions our thoughts, our motives everything is submitted to God and we no longer have prejudice and bias because of some of the hurts that we are carrying and when we are at that place now we can minister the pure gift of God now we know that the gifts of God all the gifts of God the gifts of the wholeness they are all pure but the issue happens when the vessel that they come through is not pure and the vessel is us the vessel is our hearts which is why in Bustersologians 5 it was 20 21 God reminds the believers just for one thing the whole Bustersologians the reason is our presence is the perfect gift of God due to the manner that the vessel is the hearts and our unhealed parts of us that it taints the below of the gift of God and so on the receiver side we test everything and we hold fast to what this could or we evaluate what is being put forward and we receive what is from God and leave behind this which may be coming from the biases of people and the prejudices that they carry so emotional awareness is something we need to pursue on a journey of life and on a history that it really helps us manifest the supernatural so let us keep going there are a couple of other things that we want to talk about the next one would be humility and we know that God has promised more grace when we humble ourselves God gives grace to the prejudices and so we need that place of humility where even when mighty things are happening through our ministry we acknowledge that it is God's grace and God's power in our lives which is actually making that happen we position ourselves in a place of honoring God worshipping God and we need to be in that position when we are in that place of giving God the building it is not because of we ourselves but because of God then our character is in a place where God can trust us more and he can give us greater responsibility so greater grace comes to the humble and as James 4 verse says God gives grace to the humble and grace is what we need to keep serving the Lord to keep going up into higher levels and in supernatural ministry it is so very important because some of the manifestations that we see around us can be very grand and if we are not careful we think that is because of us we get distracted and that is what we want to be cautious about finally the last and yet important aspect to remember is to keep learning constantly and expanding there is so much we can learn about how one can manifest the supernatural how one can flow in the midst of this and it is a constant learning from our own practice and from the lives of people around us but the primary source of course would be the word of God where we go back to the word we meditate on the word and see how God what God's power is all about and how he wants that power to be released in order to glorify his being so constant learning constant expanding that's in fact a very exciting thing that we will never really reach the fullness of our understanding of God and the supernatural because God is incredible this power is incredible and we can keep pursuing it practicing in our understanding of who he is what he does and how to manifest it in it through our lives will the mistakes happen? of course the mistakes will happen but we can learn from that experience of being or missing the bond and come back on track keep looking up new things and expanding you know the supernatural staying hungry as Jesus said if you are hungry then you will be and it's very important especially in supernatural to be hungry for more of God more of what God can do so that's a little bit the preparation let's now look at section 4 which covers the pursuit so we can position ourselves to receive God to manifest the supernatural now we go after God to see more of the supernatural that are 4 aspects that we will talk about one is expectation the second is taking the risks third one is stepping up to higher levels and fourth is being relentless so this is the daily pursuit of the supernatural through our lives so firstly to have an expectation in this course we made the political foundation about the possibility of the supernatural through the life of every believer so every day we can carry that expectation and Jesus said in John chapter 14 verse 12 that you shall do greater things than these each of us is believers we are called to do greater things for God every day we can expect God's power will manifest miracles will happen God will work through us to give a word to someone we will receive a word from God God will intervene in our situations and as we talked about the first key understanding the spiritual realm we move with that confidence that the spiritual realm will have a bearing on the natural realm and that expectation is important an expectation that God will do greater things is also something that we must maintain we stay in this phase of expectation given to the world the movement is the kind of the world and we see what Jesus is calling every believer the way he says to go go heal the sick, cleanse the leper the ways that they are so as part of the great commission this is what we are supposed to do we are supposed to see the supernatural we are supposed to see the manifestation of the gifts of the spirit the manifestation of the rising so staying in the world and keeping the expectation at that high level also intimacy with God as we are intimate with the Lord worshiping him spending time on prayer that level of expectation will be maintained even as we see manifestation of God's power that also can raise the vibe it can also push us to believe God greater things so that's very crucial to maintain that hunger and that expectation help us to pursue God the second one is to take risks once again we talked a lot about it and we said that one needs to step out we said that they expect RISK risk where we are willing to trust God for God's intervention in someone's life so we are ready to pray for them we are ready to command healing to their sick parents so all of this will be encouraged we will worry about what people might say we will worry about our reputation it's really valuable very many things but ultimately the word of God says that all believers are called to this man so there's got to be some point in our lives where we step out and not just once but time and again to keep stepping out and people that are to flow with the gifts of the spirit that will help us to see more of God's power of God's miracles released there are many things that we can discuss about today there are diversities of operations of the manifestation of the gifts of God how the power of God is expressed but I want to see all this what needs to be willing what needs to be bold enough and say okay I'm just going to step into it and God will God will make it happen so that has to come from us yeah so that's a little bit about the taking risks aspect we are going to the next one which will be stepping up into higher levels as we look at the word of God we promised that under the new government there will be a greater manifestation of the works of God's power the work of the spirit so this is the second code of the chapter versus 5 through 11 so based on this promise we can expect more of the supernatural now than what used to happen under the old government I know many of the things that took place under the old government in the old estimate were quite spectacular but as under the new government we have a greater promise of the manifestation of God's power so we can keep stretching ourselves to see more because God has spoken there will be higher levels so what are these higher levels what means to pursue the higher levels so we can pursue higher anointing greater anointing we want a greater anointing for the works to be done we could pray for greater anointing to minister the word we could pray for greater anointing to bring people into the kingdom we could pray for greater anointing for the demonstration of the supernatural to pray for greater anointing to see a large impact of the works of God so all these things are part of our pursuit as we move in this direction there will be more than we would experience finally in our pursuit it's important for us to be relentless we talked about persistence in the case of supernatural ministry but here again is a reminder that in our pursuit we must be so determined that even when we encounter challenging phases we must not need to hold on as we stated earlier there could be failures there could be persecutions that happen because we are talking about the supernatural or we are praying for someone healing others we are not liking there could be misunderstandings but despite all of this having that never give up attitude going up to the supernatural staying on course is one of our most promising because we are clear about the biblical foundations of the supernatural we can be convinced that we can go ahead and pursue trust for more of the supernatural so with this we have covered the remaining portions in our course and we hope that each one of us will step up and see more of our being being manifest let's pray family father we thank you for your reminder that Lord you are at work Lord in and through us Father God you are calling us to do the greater works of the kingdom Father God we pray that all the discussions that we had through this course will help us not position ourselves to be bold and courageous to step up your power and our amazing praise Lord Lord let many lives be pleased let the kingdom of God come Father many souls come into the kingdom we thank you Lord bless you Lord Jesus we pray so just one thing this time to thank everyone for being a part of this course God bless you and all the best for 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